The Cycle: Frontier players having the time of their lives in the ongoing beta test will get a little more time to run amok in the game. Developer Yager Developments has announced that they’re extending the second closed beta by a full two weeks on account of the start delay and issues that still need to be addressed in the [...]
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Bristlebane Day, the silliest holiday in all of Norrath, has returned to EverQuest 2. The event is now live and will run until April 6th, bringing with it the usual array of April Fool’s Day activities with new merchant items up for grabs. “Praise Fizzlethorpe for this glorious of holidays! Head to the Enchanted Lands to take part in the [...]
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With just a few weeks until Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1’s mid-April release, the devs are taking time to explain upcoming changes to how land is purchased in the game. With the release of Patch 6.1, all land purchases will go through the new lottery system rather than on a first-come, first-served basis. This will include the new plots of [...]
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Star Vault’s seemingly unending quest to increase server capacity and improve performance in Mortal Online 2 continues with this week’s patch. The patch mainly focuses on squashing bugs but also includes a major network optimization that should allow for higher player capacity and larger PvP battles. In light of the network improvements, the team says that they’ll be keeping the [...]
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With the immense popularity of Microsoft’s Game Pass service, some other company is bound to want to break off a piece of the pie. Around 25 million Game Pass subscribers are currently enjoying a rotating lineup of free games from various video game developers on PC and Xbox and Sony wants in on the action. In fact, Sony is planning [...]
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Amazon Game Studios head Mike Frazzini has stepped down from his position and will be leaving after almost 18 years with the company. According to Bloomberg, Frazzini made the announcement internally last Friday, saying that he was taking time off to focus on his family. “It’s always been in my head to take time off in the middle of my [...]
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The Black Desert Online dev team unveiled a whole host of new content coming to the long-running fantasy MMORPG during this morning’s CalpheON Ball Episode 2 livestream. One of the highlights of the stream was the unveiling of the new Drakania class, wielder of the devastating greatsword, Slayer. Drakania - New Class Combat Trailer | Black DesertWatch this video on [...]
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Gear up and prepare to ship out as squad-based multiplayer shooter CROWZ gets an official launch date. The free-to-play title will be arriving on Steam Early Access on March 29th with two distinct game modes to choose from: Squad Operation and Blood Zone. Squad operation is a 4-man squad battle royale-style mode where players compete with other squads to collect [...]
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After dealing with multiple server issues in Elder Scrolls Online earlier this week, Game Director Matt Firor sheds light on what happened in a post-mortem update on the official forums. According to Firor, the issues were caused by hardware failure rather than a problem with the recently-implemented database sharding on the PC NA server. Database sharding separates character data into [...]
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Kickstarted VR MMORPG Ilysia has kicked off its second Alpha test yesterday, giving testers a few days to take the current build out for a spin. Alpha 2 will run until April 8th and is open to all Kickstarter and pre-Kickstarter backers. The team is also running giveaways on Discord if you want to score an invite. “Complete the questline [...]
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